As you all saw a couple of weeks ago, my Piedmontese mother-in-law dedicates the whole month of August to her tomato-sauce preparation and conservation. Since I wanted to start September with another typical recipe of this region without putting her back to work, I decided to go and have a look in the kitchen of the youngest members of the Minelli family. There, Giulio and Martina, Alessandro’s little nephew and niece, showed me how to make one of the most famous desserts of this wonderful region: il bonet! Il bonet is a kind of chocolate pudding with liquor and Amaretto biscuits in it. As the pictures show, it’s very easy to make. Good luck!

Ingredients:

-4 eggs

-4 kitchen spoons of sugar

-500 ml of milk

-200 grams of Amaretto biscuits

-40 gram of cacao powder

-Half a glas of liquor (the traditional recipe states that one should use rhum but we used brandy instead)

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-The young cooks with their ingredients.

-De jonge koks achter hun ingrediënten.

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- Put 40 grams of sugar in a bowl.
- Doe 40 gram suiker in een kom.

- Break and beat up the eggs.
- Breek de eieren en kluts ze.

- Make a crumble out of the Amaretto biscuits.
- Verkruimel de Amaretto koekjes.

- Take a bigger oven dish and fill a third of it with water.
- Neem een grotere ovenschaal en vul een derde ervan met water.

- Cover your first oven dish with aluminum foil and put it in the second oven dish.
- Bedek je bakvorm met aluminiumfolie en zet de vorm in de gedeeltelijk met water gevulde ovenschaal.

- Put the bonet in a preheated oven on 180°C for 30 minutes. Than try the pudding with a fork to see if it's all solid. If not, leave it a bit longer.
- Plaats de bonet in een voorverwarmde oven op 180°C gedurende 30 minuten. Prik vervolgens met een vork in de pudding om te kijken of hij volledig is opgesteven. Zo niet, moet hij nog even verder bakken.

About me

I am a Belgian Master in Gastronomy and I organize cultural and culinary trips and tours in Piedmont. Whether you're looking for someone to give you a general tour in Turin or whether you would love to visit a coffee roastery or winery or just take an Italian cooking class, I can organize it for you. Just contact me and let me know what it is you're looking for and how I can help to make your trip to Piedmont unforgettable!